George Ferris, what a wheel! / by Barbara Lowell ; illustrated by Jerry Hoare and with photographs.
Material type:
TextSeries: Penguin core conceptsPublisher: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0448479257 (pbk.)
- 0448479265
- 9780448479255 (pbk.)
- 9780448479262
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- Civil engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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- Inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Structural engineering -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 624.1092 L914 | Available | 33111007579887 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Have you ever ridden a Ferris wheel? You go up, up, up and can see for miles! But when the inventor of the Ferris wheel, George Ferris, first pitched the idea, everyone thought he was crazy. A 250-foot bicycle wheel that goes around and around and carries people in train cars? Can't be done, they said. But George proved them wrong. Read about how George's hard work, courage, and imagination created one of the most famous fair rides today.
George Ferris, What a Wheel covers the concepts Imagination and Problem Solving.
A portrait of the engineer who invented the Ferris wheel describes the ambitious ideas that inspired him to build the largest wheel in the world for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.